From: adam@address.invalid
Moe Trin wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in
article
> , Adam wrote:
As you may have seen in another thread here, apparently stolid has a CPU
that supports hardware virtualization, and a BIOS that won't let it be
used. Result is no 64-bit VMs on stolid (in VirtualBox under both Linux
and Windows), but that's no more than a slight inconvenience. What's
interesting is that on eris, where the CPU does not have hardware
virtualization, it looks like 64-bit VMs /can/ be created and used.
[my test system]
>>> I wonder if the linmodem drivers will work with a 3.x kernel.
>
>> I should know soon. [...] they do offer generic packages
>> with C source that require the kernel source (not just headers).
>
> Should be interesting to try - the 3.x has more than enough changes in
> it (ChangeLog-3.0 was 158k+ lines).
Although as I understand things, the 3.x didn't mark any major changes.
>> I tried compiling one under Fedora 17 with a 3.x kernel (the only
>> distro on eris that has 'net access so far), but IIRC asm/system.h
>> wasn't found, which /should/ have been somewhere in the kernel source.
>
> Assuming you have the full kernel source, you're likely to find about
> 30 files with that name, all different.
Nope, none whatsoever. Apparently what I have isn't the full source --
it wasn't in the repository and I had to get it elsewhere.
I also tried compiling it under Slackware64, because I included the
kernel (2.6.x) source as part of the install. That failed because of
some symbol not being defined. I could look into that.
What I'm considering doing is just moving the external modem and
USB-RS232 adapter from stolid to eris. I don't think I need dialup
capability on both systems.
>> I saw an article last week that said that AOL still had 3 million
>> dialup customers, or something like that.
>
> I know that all of the people I know who used
> to be AOL have moved on
I have one friend who's using AOL but I doubt it's dialup as she's in
Manhattan.
> You got me thinking - when WAS the last time you saw an AOL CD? They
> used to be in the junk magazines rack at the front of the grocery store.
Along with CDs from various other ISPs. I haven't seen an AOL one in a
few years, but two or three months ago I was at K-Mart and they had free
NetZero CDs by the registers.
>> There are still places in the U.S. where nothing else is available.
>
> If you want to pay for it, wide-band is available virtually everywhere
> in the lower-48 through satellite providers like direcpc.com
But not absolutely everywhere. My aunt & uncle's summer place near
Montpelier, VT would be one. Unpaved roads, no cable TV available
there, and their place is next to a steep hill so there isn't a clear
sight to the various satellites.
>> Every time Mandriva 2011.0 boots, /media is empty. Directories under
>> it get automatically created with the device label/disc name when a
>> removable medium is inserted, and deleted when that medium is removed.
>> Maybe something is being /too/ helpful.
>
> That's the automounter - but this shouldn't be deleting "files" or
> directories that you may create there manually. The example being
> that "nothing_is_mounted_here" in the otherwise empty mount points.
I also discovered that devices it automounts require root to 'umount'
them. Another thing to look into.
>> I was referring to symlinks under /dev:
>
> In the kernel documentation, you should find a file named
> devices-2.6+.txt that is the official list of kernel devices. Near the
> bottom of that file, there is a section titled "ADDITIONAL /dev
> DIRECTORY ENTRIES" listing "Compulsory links" (/dev/fd, stdin, stdout
> and stderr), "Recommended links", and "Locally defined links".
OK, found it. "Locally defined" includes symlinks /dev/cdrom and
/dev/modem exactly as I'm using them.
> Yeah, that's udev. Using pppd directly, you can specify any serial
> port (man pppd and look at _ttyname_), but some helper programs
> are less imaginative and only accept /dev/ttyS[0-3] and /dev/modem.
> That would put a crimp in things here, as the USB modem shows up as
> /dev/ttyACM0.
The NetZero/Juno Linux software isn't very imaginative either, or maybe
it was just assuming Lindows/Linspire. Here the USB-RS232 adapter shows
up as /dev/ttyUSB0, but I made /dev/modem a symlink to it.
[wireless]
> If you change the channel on the router, I
> don't expect the helper programs to notice and automagically follow.
But it does! Today on eris during a long download with 'wget', I
(wirelessly) accessed the router's config screen and changed my channel
from 9 to 2, and in much less than a minute the wireless card had
automatically changed to follow and continued the download. Ditto for
changing back from 2 to 9. I suppose that means it would be possible to
write an app to run on eris that would determine the least-busy channel
and change the router setting if possible, or at least tell the user
what to switch to. I don't think it's worth actually writing it, but I
think it is possible.
[glass cleaners]
>> (As opposed to, say, Arcadia, which sounds like a
>> meadow but is a racetrack.)
>
> Santa Anita isn't the only thing in town - there is also the Arboretum
> slightly to the West of the track, and a fairly large shopping mall to
> the South of it.
Back in 2002 or '04 I killed an hour or two at that mall while my cousin
(the one in South Pasadena) shuttled the kiddies around.
[kitty news]
> I'm getting regular punctures because Smokie tends to
> have claws out when carried (she gets her medications while sitting
> on the top of the washing machine).
When I had to give Lizzie a pill and I was the only one home, I used to
wrap her in a towel with only her head sticking out and hold that in
place by sitting on it, leaving both hands free to do the dirty work.
Adam
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